My sister bought our dad a CCC for Father's Day. It was supposed to be shaped like a watermelon. As soon as I saw it, I thought of this blog. I joked to my sister that I was going to take a pic of it and send it in to Cake Wrecks, and she got mad. LOL

I think these are the most puzzling wrecks I've seen in a very long time. I furrowed my brows at each photo. What is that blue dot in the first one? What is that green jelly in the other one? I don't get it. Do people actually step up to the counter at the bakery, ask for the poo cake, happily place it in their shopping cart feeling like they just got a super deal and then skip away?

Not getting "tie" at all out of that one. Of course it has to be a tie because I don't know of any Father's Day poo volcanoes in the natural world. Though apparently pig-tailed raisin-eyed children exist in wreckerator world.

The random blue thing in the first wreck is the infamous Twelfth Cupcake. The one that is advertised but not usually needed to complete the "design", so it's just randomly placed as a "decorative accent". I amuse myself by looking for this Rudolph of the CCC world, ignored by its overly-frosted reindeer brethren, waiting for the day it screams "I can't take it anymore!!" and inserts itself into the middle of the "design", demanding acceptance as an equal participant in the CCC wreckage.

Or something like that.

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I agree with dawn that the flotsam is a gift-card tin. Which means either someone is really cheap and just stuck the lid in the cake, or someone has to purposfully put their fingers close to that "frosting" and risk losing their fingers to the chemicals therein.

#1 has totally mystified me with the addition of the blue cupcake. Before that, it was just the ugly face of a mutant...something.

#2 appears to be a goat? Is there some tradition of wishing your father a goat? Comparing him to a goat? ("Thank you...is this because I head-butted you last week? Jeez, just because a guy eats a few tin cans...")

wow. thanks for pointing out the steamy reflection on the pooball. ew.

and I think you're all correct about the gift card tin lid. WTF!! Look how it even smooshed the Jell-O where they placed it. (How did they get the Jell-O to crack?)

another note about the poo-tie (that first Anon was me, Anon/Di). The way they made the design "concentrically" struck me funny the second time I looked at it. It's as if the flotsam in the middle made ripply waves in the pooblob. It's like poo in motion!

The radioactive green one looks suspiciously like the background of the Incredible Hulk "Echo Stomp" cake design... yer supposed to scratch "cracks" into the pristine cake surface and spray it neon green (and in this case, slather it with piping gel, *urk*!) and then prop the Hulk figurine on it so he looks like he's "smashing" the cake.

Apparently, they discovered they were out of the Hulk figurines AFTER they decorated the cake top.

On to plan B, which is always "Throw a plastic topper on there and be done with it!"

It's not that mysterious to me what that blue cuppie is there for.See, the darn DEAL was--as the sticker says-- "12 CT" cupcake cake. And the "design" was comprised of only 11 cupcakes. Whoever was buying it counted, became irate, and demanded their money's worth ("Dammit! I want my money's worth! You trot another cupcake out here right NOW, or you're only getting $11!! What? No, I DON'T care what flikking COLOR it is! Just BRING it!")

Leave it to me, but I feel sad about the second...uh... creation. Whateverthehellitis, it looks scared! Worse than that, it almost looks traumatized. Shellshocked even. Like a helpless animal in the mouth of a big predator.I couldn't eat that!!!I'd be trying to RESCUE it (or at least put it out of its misery).

I don't know where you are all getting "fish" from. I totally thought it was wolf. You know, Dad, the lone wolf, guarding his pack. The obviously serious imagery of this cake, and the social mores it brings to light are somehow lessened by the "hi dad" pick off to one side.

Yesterdays were funny, today's actually depressing. I'm not sure what's worse-- that someone put these up for sale, or that someone may have bought them. (I hope their father was truly so horrible a parent as to deserve that. In which case, why even buy them a cake this bad??)

The first one: at least it's a cupcake mosaic not a CCC. But my first, much snarkier, thought was that it's more suitable for celebrating The Pill's 50th anniversary!

Is the second one a fish??? If so, it pairs "well" with yesterday's "fish hook"

No clue what that face is in #3, let alone why.

#4: is that left over from St Patrick's day?!?!

#5: My first thought was some weird ancient pyramid attempt (e.g. Inca/Egypt/Cambodian) given how stepped it was, but then I concluded that it was probably an attempt at a tie

#6: a well played ball that it's so steamy???

@Albatross: I agree with you that the bad watermelon CCC for fathers day deserves to be submitted here!

There seems to be an unearthly glow coming from the green slime cake. I keep imagining that the white thing left of center is a beam of light glowing through the slime. Is it possible there is a radioactive glow under all that toxic ooze? It's as if someone decided that a father's day cake should look like a science project gone wrong.

I'm not sure how the pooball was supposed to be a hint for the previous wreck, other than it looks like poo, but what I saw with cake number 5 was a cloak. An evil poo cloak. Maybe something Magneto would wear if his power was attracting poo rather than metal. Or as Trevor says, perhaps it belongs to Poo Vader.

@ Albatross: It's a pity your sister couldn't see the funny side of her watermelon ccc (patooey!), we would have loved to see piccies of it.

I think I am going to go hide under my bed and hope those cakes can't find me.. scary things lol. At least they didn't put giant ants on them.. unless they are hiding in all of that disgusting looking frosting.. scary.

#2 Some more. If someone figures out what it is supposed to be, do they get a free electroshock session to erase the memory of having seen it? (He asked, therefore trying desperately to figure out what it is supposed to be.)

#3 & 3a I guess the wreckerator was working so hard on the neo-Mondrian Hitler that they forgot to cross the 't' and put the primary colors in the portrait. Happy Falher's Day!

#4 Oy. Are those *bubbles* around the plaque? Do I want to know how frosting gets that green? This redefines the concept of 'diet aid'.

#5 Dad is probably tired of receiving a tie for the last 500 Father's Days, so what shall we do this year? I know -- a poo tie! I'm sure he was kidding about that whole 'disowned' thing.

#6 If he just can't swallow another tie, how about -- a decomposing football! High five! Keep the change! (I want to believe that cake wasn't left over from last season, even though it looks like it was.)

I'm sure Dad got all choked up over the seconds of thought and effort that must have gone into these wreck-creations. Although people usually don't turn green when they're holding back emotions...

Ewww! Recycled cake! That green one is totally a Hulk "Echo Stomp" cake. They must have had an abandoned cake and just slapped a Father's Day plaque on it.And as for that HEB pooball cake, I really think that came from down the street from me! (and that's why they don't get repeat customers and we do ;) )

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